Marking ink or fluid for use on embroidery fabrics or sheets.



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES MOSSMAN, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE M. J. CUNNING COMPANY, OF CINCINNA'I'L-OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

MARKING INK OB FLUID FOR USE ON EMBROIDERY FABRICS OR SHEETS.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J AMES Mossnax, a citi zen of the United States of America, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio have invented a certain new and useful Marking Ink or Fluid for Use on Embroidery Fabrics or Sheets, of which the following is a specification.

My composition relates to inks or colored fluids used in marking textile fabrics or the like in embroidery work and it consistsof the following ingredients, combined in the proportions stated, viz:-eoloring material one (1) ounce; linseed-oil, one and a half (1%) ounces; bees-wax,- two (2) ounces; turpentine, one-fourth (-1) ounce. These ingredients must first be thoroughly dissolved together and then run through a grindingmill, one or more times as required, for acquiring a smooth, freely-running, fluid mixture, free from lumps, grits, or heavy, coarse substance.

In using the above-nu med composition or marking-fluid a quantity of it is poured on a slab and a flat, straight-edged implement like a spud or scraper employed to carry and spread a suitable charge or supply to the surface of a perforated pattern sheet or stencil containing the designs to be after Ward made on the transfer or impression sheet that is laid on a table below, preferably in multiple or in a stack for speedy and convenient action in handling. Each transfer-sheet thus produced is placed on the goods or fabric to be worked with the embroidery designs, and then the desired design is transferred or impressed on said fabric from the impression-sheet by means of friction or heat, as conditions prescribe or permit. 7

The frictional method is preferred and Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 9, 1915.

Application filed March 25, 1915. Serial No. 17,041.

conducted by means of any suitable implement, or the thumb-nail of the operator if need be and found best adapted to the Work when it desired to get the ink well set into the surface of the fabric. Heat may be used, however, when the transfersheet has been used a number of times and the impression becomes faint, and then the heat enables the further use of said transfer-sheet a few more times with good efi'ect.

I employ bees-wax in my composition as a color-carrier transfer body or medium and prefer it to any other medium for the reason that it assures a liner and more distinct, clean-cut line for the embroiderer to.

1. The herein-described composition of matter for use as a marking ink or fluid in.

the transfer or reproduction of designs on embroidery fabrics or sheets, consisting of a coloring-element, linseed-oil, bees-wax and turpentine, substantially in the proportions described.

2. The herein-described. composition of matter for use as a marking ink or fluid in the transfer or reproduction of designs on embroidery fabrics or sheets, consisting of coloring-element one ounce, linseed-oil one and one-half ounces, bees-wax two ounces, and turpentine one-fourth ounce, substantially as described.

JAMES MOSSMAN. Witnesses:

JOHN ELIAS JONES, VVlLLIAM SonUoHARoT. 

